Hot Dog, Hot Dog, Hot Diggity Dog

If you're a parent, a teacher, an aunt/uncle, etc., you know the title of this post is the finale song for every Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode on Disney Junior.  It doesn't really have much to do with this post, except for the fact that "MinMouse" (Emma's name for the show) pervades our lives.  It's running through my head right now.  That song is the soundtrack to my life...it's the song in my head when I wake up and when I go to sleep.  If you tell Emma she can't watch on it on "tb," then she says, "Watch MinMouse on Mommy's phone."  "No, Emma, MinMouse took the afternoon off."  "Watch MinMouse on Daddy's phone."  "Daddy's not home."  "Watch MinMouse on Pad." (iPad).  She will try everything she can.  And recently, all those no's have led to some terrible two meltdowns.  Oh well.  Too bad.

My sister has been visiting this week.  She works from home, so when she comes to visit, she works from my parents' home.  She works for a toy company, and today Anissa told someone at work via phone call that she has the Hot Dog song in her head all the time now.  That person started singing the song to her.  This is what happens when you either work for a toy company or are around Emma.  Anissa never even had a fighting chance of escaping the Hot Dog Dance.

Emma will be starting 2K at First Baptist on Tuesday, and this week we had Open House and Parents' Night.  Emma got to the door of her classroom at Open House and never looked back.  She was fascinated by the room.  It looks like a pretty normal 2K classroom to me, but a few things stood out.

 

The light table fascinated Emma.  This little white table lights up from below, and you can put these little translucent straws and paddles and rocks on top of the table.

 

I think Emma's school is really big on pictures.  Good thing, because Emma loves pictures almost more than cottage cheese, goldfish crackers, and MinMouse.  School hasn't even started yet, and there is a picture of each child on the wall, on his or her cubby, with his or her parents on the wall, and we are asked to bring a framed family picture to school as well. 

 

Dingdingdingdingding!  Jackpot!  One of Emma's great loves: a kitchen set.  And see that little red dress with white polka dots?  Look familiar?  Yes, that's a MinMouse dress.

We are following in the footsteps of another child with spina bifida who is a year older than Emma.  He also attended First Baptist in his wheelchair, so the teachers and staff are familiar with handling a child in a wheelchair.  We love Emma's teachers, and I've even known one of them since I was five.  She was my kinderdance teacher at that point in time, and I continued to dance for her mother for many, many, many years after that.  God is in every little detail of your life, isn't He?  He really knows what He's doing.

My sister's birthday is coming up in a few weeks, so to celebrate we had a little family dinner at our house tonight.  A birthday dinner wouldn't be complete without cake with delicious icing that dyes your tongue, teeth, and lips all kinds of crazy colors.  Emma was really digging the green icing in particular.

Ok, well, our washing machine is throwing water all over the laundry room, so that's the end of this blog post.  Does anyone want a free house?